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This could easily be done locally with no network

Inference is cheap, only the training is expensive. Both Bernie and Trump have suggested doing a partial government takeover of the big AI companies to start a sovereign wealth fun…

I think what you're missing is that they could all be focused in one spot, not spread over the city. If curved reflective buildings can melt siding, and mirror solar plants can mel…

Right, and orders of magnitude more people have to deal with UTC and timezones compared to TAI and the offset. So it's good to have it in the layer that it's in

If you click the splat-looking render mode, it looks more normal. It defaults to a shader on top of the raw visualizaiont that uses a bad glyph, almost like it's making an ASCII ar…

Who's to say the "rules of reasoning" aren't just predicting the next thing that an intelligent person (you) would do? Emergent behavior isn't magic, it's just emergent.

Presumably they wanted feature parity with Github Actions. If you have lots of workflows already defined in Github Actions DSL, you're not going to want to port them. And even if y…

I thought about this when my catalytic converter was stolen. Part of me was like "maybe I should just strap a two $100 bills onto it with a note pleading them not to take it. But t…

Once all cars are autonomous, that day is certainly coming. Even before then, it's very likely we'll see platooning in the future, even if there are still some human drivers. Also,…

Seems to me that law enforcement officers should be required to carry liability insurance that they personally pay for. Have a lot of settlements / claims? Your insurance rate goes…

They only open-sourced the external surface, not the internals, so it doesn't help repairability much

$41k doesn't sound that cheap to me, for what it is

Backup cameras don't require touchscreens, they just require a screen in general. Lots of makes are getting by with just putting a little 3" screen in the rear view mirror or simil…

Most people suggesting taxing the rich more aren't saying that the middle class should pay very little tax

Mancala is roughly 1D too!

"They" has always (in our lifetimes) been used to refer to a singular person of unknown gender. For example "someone left their coat here. They must be cold"

Grandparent comment was being sarcastic

I especially liked the part where mission control referred to using the toilet as "donation"

Strava just happens to be the most popular run tracking app. If they banned it, another would take its place. If anything, they should be working with Strava to create an incognito…

Why did you need circular maps?

Meta is short for metagame. In videogames, and even in some sports, there are decisions made above/outside of the typical strategy of the game which players call metagame. For exam…

This sounds hard to believe. Adding anti-counterfeit messures to the bills that have them ($10s and up?) can't be that expensive compared to the value of the note, why would they m…

The opening paragraph is very telling; the author doesn't seem to understand typical pro-level parametric CAD programs available on the market: > I keep designing physical parts fo…

The problem seems to be, as a producer, if you don't publish your music there, people won't find it or listen to it, at least not in the viral way that other artists are able to fi…

In fact it is already built into Acrobat: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/desktop/protect-documents/re...